Death Of Communist Big Man
♦ "Received Sundnv 7 P.m. LONDON, July 2. Tho doatli oceurred to-'lav in a Mov , cnw sanatorinm of tlie R'uRrarian niier, Mr Dimitrov, agpd 07. Tio left Bulgaria for Russia in Anril for treatment for diahpfps and liver troubi'*. Deatli was causod l>v diabetos. Th> l>odv is lying in state in tlie TTall of Colnmns of the TTonse op the TTnion. Flmvors and wreaths from Soviet organisatinns cover the hier around whieh stands a gnard of hononr of leadinsr Soviet ofiieials. Marslial Stalin ioined the gnard of lionour whieh is change-1 everv five minntes. The Bulvarians learned of Mr Diniitrov '« doath ten kours after it oeenrred. Mr Tiimitrov lieeame the liero of ' world eonunnnisin in 1 0.i.'l when he v\ as aeenped op beinjj the leader in the bnrn ing of the dennan "Reichstag in Berlin. He eonfonrtdt'd the (Jennans who nnt him on trial, was aeouitted and fl"d to Mo-"0\v. Tio eatapnlted to a ton jeb in the "World f'ommunist revolntion whieh the Thm^ian Omnmunist Partv was leading. ATr Dimitrov beeame pxeentive secretary of the Cnmintern in 1084 and remained there nntil 1 0 4B when Marshal Stalin announeed the disbandment of thp Comintern. When Mr Dimitrov beeame Premier of Bulgaria in 194f>, he instituted the most tliorongb going proletarian dictatorship ontsiile the Soviet T'nion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1949, Page 5
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